I am trying to setup a VPN via this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-setup-your-own-vpn-with-pptp
and when I try the command: service pptpd restart it gives me this error:
service: command not found
Anyone that can help?
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This article explains the issue and the solution,
http://www.devdummy.com/2017/10/systemctl-command-not-found.html
/Sameera
I actually fixed my problem, You need to run
sudo service pptpd restartbecause I think the service command is only a root command!That guide was probably written for Ubuntu and since you’re on Debian, you need to do this:
So we’re just replace
servicewithsystemctland then moving around in the commands.